National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. 1979.

Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

One of the things that makes arguing with men so much more draining than arguing with women is the unequal distribution of credibility and contribution.

Somehow, whenever I argue with men, it always falls upon me to both prove my own claims, and to disprove his, while he does neither; his only obligation seemingly to dole out whatever ungrounded assertions he conjures up on the spot. Somehow, it is always wordlessly established that anything I say is false until proven true, while anything he says is true until proven false.

This same dynamic happened again over on tiktok, when a man claimed women are just as violent as men. Automatically, almost as if by muscle memory, I offered up the usual statistics on male depravity: men constituting 99% of rapists, 99% of mass shooters, 98% of killers, 95% of serious domestic abusers. And his only response was to say those statistics were wrong. No elaboration; wrong simply because he said so.

I already knew how the entire conversation would pan out: I’d give him my source, he’d find a reason to discredit the source, then I’d scour the internet to find a source that suited his standards, which he’d inevitably find a reason to discredit too.

So instead I simply said, “Prove the statistics are wrong.” And that was the only thing I responded with henceforth: prove it, prove I’m wrong, prove you’re right. Thus reversing the dynamics and positing that anything I said was true unless he demonstrated otherwise; unduly putting all the onus on him while I did nothing other than decide whether he was convincing me of claims thoroughly enough—and if he wasn’t, it just meant I was winning, of course.

He blocked me, and so far so have all the other men I’ve used this approach on. I don’t know whether it’s because they couldn’t actually disprove my claims or because they couldn’t stand to be treated the same way they treat women in debates. But I think more women should do this. Stop wasting energy proving your points to men, and start making them prove theirs to you.

"i love gays who aren't ashamed of themselves and who are proud!!" you people start crying when a gay man likes dick and balls or a lesbian woman likes pussy idk what to tell you

women's sports is one of the loudest and most successful anti-patriarchy campaigns in human history. what women's sports did and does is prove, over and over again, the excellence, the raw power and strength of human woman. it completely disrupts ideas on gender.

you have big, powerful women in rugby. fast, endurable women runners. impeccably strong gymnasts. women with strong, large bodies that take up space. that are HEALTHY. they are not RESTRICTED or ladylike. they are free of the stillness/deadness that femininity demands. no corsets. no (aesthetic) thinness. no hourglass bodies for gawking. women's sports screams to society "we are fully human, not objects, not small men. we are not domestic dolls. we are hunters and foragers. fighters."

why do you think men are so vitriolic about it? why don't they want women in football? why don't they want it televized? why do they keep harassing female basketball players? why do they insist on dressing women in sexualized uniforms? why do they now make it taboo to exculde men from women's sports?

i firmly believe it's because women's sports tears patriarchal gender ideology apart so effortlessly. it completely spits in the face of patriarchal political propaganda and shows how null it is. it forces all of us to view women as full, as the beginning of human excellence, as central to human history. not as decorative sexual objects, no matter how men want us to be.

that's why there's so much aggression and derision when it comes to women's sports from men. because women's sports destroys the idea of femininity and depicts women as non-derivative. women must be monsters and cannot afford to play into the childlikeness that femininity demands. the arena of sports forces us to focus on women's physical performance rather than appearance. their strength rather than how attractive they are. their skill and strategy. their humanity.

women's sports events are also hotbeds for female and lgb solidarity like you have no idea!

y'all need to start watching women's sports. not only because is it exciting, but it deprograms the patriarchal bullshit out of you so fast. you realize how much is possible. how much we can all achieve right now.

If a worker who isn't the owner says ANYTHING similar to "I'm not really supposed to do this but-" and then does something that helps you, under no circumstances inform the business, including through reviews. You tell them that the worker was polite, professional, the very model of customer service and why you like to go there. You do not breathe a word of the rulebreaking.

if your radical feminism doesn't include women of color you're not a feminist 🫶🏻 if your feminism doesn't include lesbians and bisexual women you're not a feminist 🫶🏻 if your feminism doesn't include women with disabilities you are not a feminist 🫶🏻

racism is not okay just because its pointed at men 🫶🏻 homophobia is not okay just because its pointed at men 🫶🏻 using the r slur isn't justifiable just because its pointed at men 🫶🏻

if your belief in radical feminism is rooted more in hatred of TRAs than your actual devotion to women's rights and safety and you're willing to throw your allies under the bus in the name of owning the libs, you should probably take a step back and think about that 🫶🏻

Pregnancy is not "inconvenient"

Missing the bus is inconvenient.

Losing your purse is inconvenient

Pregnancy is intrusive, risky and life-changing and no one should have to justify not wanting to go through it.

For the numerous gay kids raised in households where being gay was never spoken of with praise or at all, the first step towards accepting your sexuality was understanding that you couldn’t change it and it wasn’t going to go away. Later, you might have the security to note that the nature of homosexuality has nothing to do with its morality, but certainly not then. It’s only by recognizing that your sexuality is immutable that you know your choices are to sink or swim; this is going to be your life whether you like it or not. People who play with the idea that sexuality isn’t innate tell me they’ve never been in the position where knowing you were born this way is the only determinant between continued anguish and moving towards self-reconciliation. That alone says you have a privilege I never did. We are not the same.

A woman went viral for being turned down for a next interview for a role, she asks the recruiter what she did wrong, the recruiter tells her they were “concerned about her lack of effort in her appearance.”

She explains she wore a freshly ironed blazer with a collared top. Her nails were painted a professional beige. She got a blowout for her hair, so a professional style. She had on subdued gold earrings.

The only thing she wasn’t wearing was makeup; she states she really doesn’t wear makeup, and only had chapstick on, as her skin is sensitive. Her lawyer mother has already explained she has no legal case against the company for any type of gender-based discrimination.

Just in case anyone wants to ask why feminists still refer to the “pink tax” or rail against more and more elaborate makeup trends being pushed on girls and women.

Women being punished socially for not wearing makeup is still a feminist issue.

Greek novelist Auguste Corteau and his husband Anastasios Samouilidis, the first homosexual couple to be married at Athens' city hall, March 7th 2024

sad reality of the fanfic-to-published work economy is that the weirdest people are willing to do it. that's why there's now hundreds of shitty no plot cishet hate-to-love enemies-to-lovers books that are ex reylo fanfic. and it's not even good. that's because the people who wrote book-quality steve/bucky and kirk/spock fic are too normal to think to themselves "i should get this porn published". they're too busy working in local government offices

Too many lesbians have couched their discomfort around "genital preference" and "cotton ceiling" discussions, in which the basic sexual orientation and sexual boundaries of lesbians are presented as Literal Colonialist Violence, in kind terms about how we just can't help it, and how we wish we were different, and how of course the people harassing us have point but unfortunately we are just lowly little homosexuals, and this couching and bending over backwards and soothing has allowed these kinds of discussions to go unchecked as the blatantly rapey homophobic arguments that they are. I'm not sorry that I'm attracted to members of my own physical sex at all. I don't feel bad about it. I don't care if it makes you so sad you want to kill yourself. I don't care if you think it is literal violence. I don't wish I was not homosexual. And the women who do feel sorry only feel sorry because you've intentionally used gaslighting and coercive rhetoric ("you don't have to date anyone you don't want to but if you only want to date afab people then you're either bad or socially poisoned") on a group of people who, having been socialized to never stand up for themselves and to acquiesce and to give and give until we have nothing left, are easy to manipulate and scare and guilt trip.

Source: Common Lives Lesbian Lives; A Lesbian Quarterly ( #29 - Winter 1989 )

They say I’m a child

They say I’m a child but they say I’m a Bride

They say I’m a child but shouldn’t go near strangers

They say I’m a child but I hold one’s hand

They say I’m a child but I marry one four times my age

They say I’m a child but they say I’m a Newlywed

They say I’m a child but I don’t go to school

They say I’m a child but instead, I stay home

They say I’m a child but I know chores aren’t education

They say I’m a child but he says I’m a Wife

They say I’m a child but the load I lift is heavier than I

They say I’m a child but my hands only bleed

They say I’m a child but I only labour

They say I’m a child but they say I’m Pregnant

They say I’m a child but I know only sickness

They say I’m a child but now I’m too weak to scream

They say I’m a child but I’m Agonised

They say I’m a child but I’m a Mother.

They say I’m a child but my thighs have lines

They say I’m a child but my belly is slack

They say I’m a child but I relentlessly tend to my own

I say I’m a child but they don’t hear.

classic homophobia with a fresh coat of paint